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Create Your Future

College for Arts & Technology

College for Arts and Technology mobile site on a phone

Context

Sector

Education

Scope

Brand & Web

Year

2025

College for Arts and Technology (CAT) is a career-focused diploma college in Canada with a bold promise: create your future. Offering hands-on programs across animation, filmmaking, photography, graphic design, audio engineering, interior design, IT, and more, CAT prepares students for careers they'll actually love.

When CAT came to us, they needed a digital presence that could compete for attention alongside universities and colleges with far larger marketing budgets, and win. The site needed to speak directly to prospective students, communicate the energy and culture of the programs, and drive admissions enquiries efficiently.

We built a bold, confident platform that puts CAT's student work and program outcomes front and centre. The visual language is energetic without being loud: sharp typography, strong contrast, and a palette that positions CAT as a serious institution that also happens to be genuinely exciting to attend.

Black

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Rich Black

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CAT Red

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Energy Orange

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Light

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In Image

Deliverables

Brand

Identity System

Visual identity, colour palette, and typography standards positioning CAT as a bold, career-focused institution with real creative energy

Web

Full Build

Custom designed and developed admissions-focused website with program showcases, student work galleries, and integrated enquiry flows

UX

Student Journey

End-to-end experience designed to convert prospective students from curiosity to application: clear, energetic, and built around their decision-making process

Typography

Inter

Inter

Display & Headlines

A precision sans-serif designed for maximum screen legibility at every size. Inter's tight, confident letterforms give CAT's headlines the authority of an institution that means business, structured and purposeful, signalling the kind of focused, practical education that actually leads to careers.

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Poppins

Poppins

Body & Interface

A geometric sans-serif with rounded, approachable letterforms that bring warmth and accessibility to body copy and navigation. Poppins ensures the site speaks to prospective students in a voice that's direct and human, confident without being intimidating, welcoming without being soft.

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Client Testimonial

"Octarine built us a site that finally represents who we are: bold, creative, and serious about student outcomes. Enquiries went up immediately after launch."
CAT

College for Arts & Technology

Diploma Programs, Canada

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